Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall